Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

(18%) One of those rare movies that has some really good aspects, the main one being Woody Harrelson's very strong central performance, but overall this is frustrating misfire. By the 30th or so minutes in this feels like it's padding itself out without giving anything in return in terms of real substance, it's all just bits and pieces spoon fed every so often. This does eventually get itself going, but again it's very much one step forward one step back as it just doesn't go that one step further needed to make this a worthy film. It is almost as if Harrelson and the director are both trying to whip up some much needed energy, but they can only go so far with it before hitting a brick wall. The supporting cast is more distracting than impressive with famous faces popping up and quickly going away again, almost as if they all had a gap between projects so agreed to appear in this for a few days pay because there's no real reason why such big name stars would play such minor roles in a police drama. This, like the similar "End of watch" is a well acted, but pitifully low content failure of a movie that proves a good central performance isn't enough to make a good movie.

Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a brutal Los Angeles police officer from the Rampart Division. The police force is facing many scandals and then Dave beats up a motorist who crashed into his vehicle then ran away. The beating is videotaped by the public and he is under investigation. He has had many questionable actions including the killing of a serial rapist. His personal life is a crazy unorthodox home and sleeping with a mysterious stranger from a bar.We've seen this movie before. It's called 'Training Days'. Before that, it was 'Colors'. And so on. And it's been done better. The major problem is that Woody is by himself too much. He needs a partner to interact with. Woody does a good job, but his character is too single note. The story lack flow. The pacing is monotonous. Woody should do this character, but in another better written cop movie.

Rampart may have good intentions, but fails at executing it.In the start, as we can see, it tries to show us the life of a corrupt cop and also tries to somehow makes the viewer to sympathize with the dirty man. Well, it don't works. It's impossible to care about the protagonist. He is just a creepy, despicable nobody manipulated by the system, a loser which later shows in the film that also has a very generic personality, despite being a hot-head kind of guy. Impossible to care about a character like that. But fine. The film develops a overused and mildly interesting premise in the start. But then, in the middle of it's running time, the film totally loses it's focus creating yet another conflict, a situation apparently worse(by worse i mean uninteresting) than the first presented in the beginning. And the film keeps creating these 'sub-plots' until it suddenly ends. Yes. The film ends without any explanation of anything. Horrible.But yeah, the performances were quite good, Harrelson did a good job as the protagonist, but his character just didn't affected me at all. I didn't felt involved with him at all, and 80% of the things he did in the film were totally uninteresting and almost without any connection with the 'main premise'.And the stylized editing looked like a fail attempt to mask the uninteresting events in the film. It was meaningless. Remove the edition and you can barely stand this film.Anyways, it may be watchable, if you are really interested in losing 100 minutes of your day. 5.0/10

What is it with contemporary film makers. To disguise a lack of coherent script they try to mask this with jumps cuts, fancy camera work and contrived ie unnatural colour palettes. Through in whatever todays hip music is for the score and hey presto you have Drive - well almost. Rampart in terms of shallowness the baby bother of Drive.Set at a time when the LAPD was embroiled in controversy Harrelsons cop is a one man public relations disaster the force could do without. Thus the film title is a misnomer as it has nothing to do at all with the Rampart division. His character is an ugly amalgamation of Keitels Bad Lieutenent and Geres Dennnis Peck. Good characters to plagiarise. But what is lacking is tension , excitement or any cutting edge evident in Internal Affairs or Bad Lieutenant. Rampart is snail paced, dreary and fails to hold the viewers attention. A real struggle to stay alert until the end only to be infuriated by yet another non ending.